The Gorbachev regime has expressed no willingness to consider alternatives to its draft of the All-Union Treaty.
The Russian delegation favoured instead a single all-Union bank.
Mikhail Gorbachev's proposed All-Union Treaty -- which is supposed to be the primary focus of the current session of the Congress of People's Deputies -- ostensibly redefines the relationship between the central government in Moscow and the increasingly restive Soviet republics.
" He added, "Instead, the G-7 should help ensure that new economic and financial authority ceded by the republics to a reconfigured Moscow center be kept to an absolute minimum -- unlike the somewhat heavy-handed proposals of Grigory Yavlinsky and other All-Union officials.
So confident is Milosevic of his political and territorial gains that he is in the process of drafting a new Yugoslav constitution -- designed swiftly to codify the "voluntary" association of Serbian-dominated entities, by means of what might be termed an "All-Union Treaty" for Yugoslavia.
Customer services reps got an additional 4% hike and all union-employees were granted 100 stock options.
Mr Schroeder urged European leaders to rally round different - more egalitarian - values, dismissing a "one-size-fits-all" free-market solutions for the European Union.
Sachdev, a spokesman for the left-leaning All India Trade Union Congress.
Williams Companies came out of left field just after the bell on Thursday and outbid Energy Transfer in an all-cash deal to acquire Southern Union, turning up the heat in what could become a bidding war for the natural gas pipeline operator.
In a column ostensibly defending unions, Ezra makes no effort to defend them at all, choosing instead to parrot all the same lines used by anti-union activists for decades.
And today, all of the European Union interior ministers - basically the equivalent of our attorney general - will be in London today to speak with their counterparts in Britain to exchange intelligence information.
Walsh, of course, is the chief executive of embattled British Airways which has been in a drawn-out fight all year with the union that represents its cabin crew over changes in staffing on flights among other things.
Since last year, all institutions which want to sponsor non-European Union students for a visa must be accredited as "highly trusted".
Truman pressured mine owners into signing a contract in which they would pay for a union Welfare and Retirement Fund -- hospital, medical, and retirement plans -- all financed by a royalty assessed on the amount of coal extracted by union workers.
Moreover, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act allows religious objectors opposed to joining a union to direct all money they would normally pay in union dues or agency fees to a non-religious charity of their choice.
In theory, such flare-ups should offer the European Union a chance to show some military mettle for all its talk of having a rapid-reaction force of its own, but in practice the Macedonian crisis comes when Europeans are still wholly unready for reaction.
Later this year the European Commission is expected to begin negotiating 'open skies' deals with non-European Union countries on behalf of all EU governments.
Lieutenants, captains and battalion chiefs are all represented by the same union as the rank-and-file firemen, exposing them to union reprisals if they use the discipline that management sometimes requires.
But President George W. Bush has pledged to halve the federal budget deficit, avoid tax increases and reform the tax system all at the same time--all promises he's likely to repeat in tonight's State of the Union address.
The European Central Bank unleashed its open-ended bond buying program after Mario Draghi promised to do all he can to save the monetary union, and Fed chief Ben Bernanke announced his version of open-ended bond purchases, dubbed QE3.
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It has also led to an all-Wales survey into the issue by the Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW).
Those figures make the claims of Chris Crane, the head of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council (the 7, 700-member deportation agents' union), all the more ridiculous.
"We're working together to make sure safety is not going to be affected, but unfortunately, you might want to buy 'War and Peace' before you get on your next flight, " said Miami controller Jim Marinitti, a representative of the National Air-Traffic Controllers Association, the union representing all FAA controllers.
In April, Sudan and South Sudan slipped close to all-out war with a series of tit-for-tat air raids and ground attacks that prompted the African Union and Security Council to push the two sides to act.
After all, fringe benefits are at the heart of union deal-making with big business.
Quitting, not showing up for work, and joining a union are all viable methods for improving their work-life.
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The move was partly orchestrated by Falcons coach Alan Tait, a former Leeds Rhinos and Newcastle player himself, and the 43-year-old believes Williams has all the attributes needed for the union game.
The rising numbers of part-time workers, anti-union legislation (in some states it is easier for workers to opt out from a union) and the strong anti-union disposition of firms like Wal-Mart all discourage membership.
Microsoft has, as we all know, had certain troubles with the European Union over anti-trust issues in the past.
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The first arises from the fact that getting a candidate elected is not all that different from doing the bread-and-butter business of union life.
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